Emily Boivin > Emily's Quotes

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
― Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― Don DeLillo, The Names

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.”
― Meriwether Lewis

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books....The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― laura hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma